Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Burleson to celebrate Founders Day in Old Town October 13

By Pegasus News wire

BURLESON — The Burleson Community Chorale is 60 members strong and ready to perform as the opening act on the main stage at Burleson’s Founders Day on Saturday, Oct. 13, in Old Town.

The chorale sings everything from show tunes to gospel, religious music, folk, patriotic, fun songs, and classic choral.

Burleson Community Chorale

The performers became one a few years ago thanks to the organizational efforts of the Burleson Independent School District’s Community Education division. The chorale met and practiced in the Community Education offices and in the music rooms of Kerr Middle School. After two or three months, the group grew to 15 people and moved to St. Matthew Cumberland Presbyterian Church, where they now practice on Sunday afternoons at 2:30 p.m. The chorale’s president, Clayton Boyd, said he hopes to someday have 100 to 150 people in the group.

The chorale includes Paul Badgett, Dorothy Beauchamp, Clayton Boyd, Jackie Boyd, Mary Brewer, Caroline Carroll, Gladys Celey, Bill Compere, Sharon Cregg, Donna Dake-Williams, Lou DeMott, Patsy Dumas, Anissa Duncan, Jerry Fladeland, Helen Hanson, Anne Hargrove, J.D. Henderson, Linda M. Henderson, Linda Henderson, Shanae Hernandez, Ron Hill, Sheree Hill, Hank Hoaldridge, Bill Howell, Earl Kirkpatrick, Maggie Kramer, Jerry Long, Larry Martin, Margie Mee, Bob Metheny, Darlene Moore, Don Orr, Elaine Piekarski, Beuell Pitts, Jeanie Sanders, Janie Sard, Charlene Smith, Linda Terry, Jerry Thompson, Janet Ward, Steve Williams, Linda Wise, Deb Withers, Paul “Bubba” Woods, Beverly Ballaglia, Rebecca Brown, Beth Fanning, Caitlin Fanning, Lynda Gouker, Paul Jespersen, Sharon Jespersen, Shirley Kerns, Pam McNeely, Kenneth Meador, Becca Miller, Liz Mitchell, Tom Montgomery, Jerry Mullen, Carol Paret, Andy Pickens, Tobyn Ribitski, Elaine Richardson, Kim Smart, Barry Snyder, Alice Swanson, Sherry Van Buren, Susan Vandersand, Everett Walker, Shiela Wheeler, Larry Womack, Chris Bohon, Christine DuBose, Patricia Ferguson, and Teresa Young.

The Founders Day fun will take place between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Rey Gonzales, the City of Burleson’s assistant director of public works, and his band, Silver Rail, will be the headliners at 1 p.m. on the main stage. Burleson’s own Quebe sisters will fiddle and sing their way through a 90-minute set that starts at 4:30 p.m. on the main stage next to the railroad tracks.

Founders Day is a joint effort of the City of Burleson’s park and recreation department and the Burleson Heritage Foundation. For more information about the chorale, contact Clayton Boyd at 817-295-4337. For more information about Founders Day festivities, call the City’s park and recreation department at 817-295-8168. For a booth application, call the Interurban building at 817-447-1575.

Source: City of Burleson

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